Mayan Math
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  • my math teacher showed me this.... it so cool!!!! the music is fun too..

  • bad music

  • Hey! I don´t understand how you do that! I tried to do it with other numbers but it did not work! haha! please help I want to know how to do that!

    Btw really cool video!

  • i believe in 2012 now

  • This is vedic maths from india

  • (IV):... Number theory (see Javier Ruiz Garcia); Yupana (Inka calculating device); base 10 math as well as base 20; matrices; infinite series (tied into Javier Ruiz Garcia's work); binary code (used for recording language as well as numbers and mathematical information on the multi-level Khipu system)[very not-well-known precursor of computer language and computer science]; and perhaps much more to be discovered. The Europeans who invaded us destroyed or banned much of our knowledge. That's all.

  • (III): ...Calendrics (measured the cosmos and time through their precise calendar into the hundreds of millions of years from the present (At Oxwitik there is an exact date marking 400,000,000 years in the past [though, the Maya didn't necessarily think of time as linear]; possibly an early form of Calculus using matrices (see Roso de Luna); the nepohualtzintzin (an abacus on which one can perform basic calculation up to roots, powers, and integral and differential calculus operations)...

  • (II): For example, some indigenous achievements in Mathematics are: actually INVENTING Arithmetic and Mathematics independently from any other culture, race, civilization, or nation; inventing the concept of "zero", without which modern Mathematics could not exist (which was banned in parts of Europe in the 15th century); the most breakthroughs in astronomy for centuries; universities where Mathematics was studied; place values; numeral systems; operations of basic arithmetic; geometry...

  • Don't mean to burst anyone's bubble but the Maya had a base 20 mathematics not base 10 as we see in this video. I don't know where you got the idea that the Maya used lines to figure out this types of algorithm but it's wrong. You all must realize that the Maya were very adept mathematicians making a very precise calculation of the universe in the science of astronomy and calendrics.

  • wow esto es increible! pero que onda con tu cancion???? no va con el video amigo :/

  • HERMANO GREAT POST

  • who the fuck disliked this?

  • Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

  • I'ts an honor to be Mayan Aztec Native American & im So proud we have our own Math to.

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  • This is just a slower and inefficient way of doing regular multiplication.

  • Great!!! And nice song as well!

  • 1 person cant draw a line

  • hahahah the song.

    there was a molotov concert.. like two days ago.. didnt go though.

    and it was for free I think.

    that wasn`t relevant.

    anyway..

    cool vid (:

  • i watched this instead of doing my Mayan math homework XD

  • I HAVE MAYAN BLOOD RUNNING ON MY VEINS, I LOOK LIKE A MAYA.......AND I LOVE IT

  • ayuda urgente en tula hidalgo quieren destruir ruinas arqueologicas para construir la refineria alguien que aga algo launion hace la fuerza no dejen que les laben el chayote conque habra mas fuente de travajo.

  • @lexernum1 es verdad lo ke dices??

    

  • I think the Mayan used base 20 numbering system

    24 X 15 (bases 10) = (01x20^1 + 4x20^0) x (15 x20^0) base 20

    = 15 x20^1 + 4x15 x20^0

    = 300 + 60 (base 10)=360 base 10

    -->

    18 X 23 = 18 x (01 03) base 20 = 18 x20 + 18 x3 base 10

    = 360 + 54 = 414 base 10

    * it take only 5 bits of a byte to represent a base 20 value.

  • Puro Molotov  =P

  • So cool, can you explain a little bit more?

  • this is awesome. instead of doing my homework i did this. for fun. what has the world come to? haha

  • @sillyx11 LOL! That is too wicked!!! I totally know what you mean... I had a paper due and then did this instead lol :")

  • @sillyx11 los mayas son excelentes en ciencias!!!!!!!!

  • fuck you

  • wow!!!!

    Es una materia????

    lo leiste en un libro?????

    No me gustan las matematicas, pero me encantaron las matematicas mayas!!!!

    yeiiii!!!!

  • Nice

  • I live in a Maya region of Chiapas, Mexico, where I have the pleasure of volunteering with highly dedicated Maya campesinos to improve the awful schools the government foists on them. You can download some of our materials at

    localhs "dot" com "slash" hs "slash" maya_mathematics "dot" asp

    Other good sources are MATEMÁTICA MAYA by Silvia María Poveda (available online)

    And the classic

    La ciencia matemática de los Mayas, . Ingeniero Hector M. Calderón, Editorial Orion, México D.F.,

    1966.

  • O_O

    interesante...

  • well, i like what you doing, it realy helps, but what if you need to multiply 2 digits by 5 digits, or any multiplication of 2 unequal number of digits, e.g. 235*21,

    thx

  • Cool math and cool song

  • Great video i know a faster way if anbody is interested.

  • yes im am

  • do you want me to make a video for it?

  • Umm yeah.

  • k i'll have it done by tommorow.

  • i can't this easy full easy and i have the metods for school and i have win competion maths

  • I can't figure out the system when 0 is added to the middle of a number such as 1003x104. Methods seem inconsistent with the answer. 0 has strange properties. I guess that's why no one has a video with 0's in it.

  • Haha good question... I didn't think about that one. I can't even think about how to do it

  • You use an Oval.

  • @iSoulja22 when there is no intersectionyou just write zero ( 0 )

  • @iSoulja22 I figured out the zero problem. You don't have to break down the grid into quadrants. you could take a number like 100x100 and just make 100 lines on x axis and 100 lines on y axis. Count up the points to get 10000. Similarly if you take 1003x104 then you get two numbers for 1003. 100 and 3. For 104 you get 10 and 4. So when adding even though there may only be one line showing it is really representing 100 lines. no space left. After just take 1# and leave behind. Carry on the rest.

  • @iSoulja22 maybe the mayans didnt have a zero

  • @iSoulja22 @wind152 It's the same principle. For the example, 1003 × 104, draw a "dummy line" for the zeros and when counting the intersections, count them as nil.

    Also, the example is a 4-digit number times a 3-digit number. To make the Mayan multiplication a "square", put a zero in front of the "104", then it should work out fine. So the question would become 1003 × 0104.

  • @wind152 just a fact 0 is a mayan number '

  • that's easy!! draw line like for number 1 but mark it as 0. then you just multiply it by 0 and it works!!! first try 10 x 10. you will have 1, 0+0, 0 which will give you 100, try 103x30- you'll have 3, 0, 9, 0. try 132x20 and you will have 2, 6+0, 4+0, 0+0 which is 2640.

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  • 2+2=5 is also from George Orwells 1984^^ that is such a wonderful book:)

    on a side note could you tell me how you learned about/how to do Mayan math? I have been trying to find more stuff about the math and the language of that culture, but finding anything on classic mayan is so hard(-_-)

  • I see, I see, did you see any color in this?

  • I guess this would be a fast way of finding out how much/ many sticks are needed for something, but it's kind'of a pain, yes, indeed.

  • nice ^^

  • A very intriguing, amusing and informative video.

  • That is so interesting!!!

  • That is awesome!!!

  • Love it. My Algebra class with Jasmine loved the video and the music. She danced and danced....

  • For real... haha that is so funny! That is awesome

  • how did you get 2+2=5?

  • lol sorry.. it was a math joke cuz we all know that 2 + 2 = 4

  • dude that is awesome but you have got to slowdown the video so you can understand it

  • emmm aja'? jaja

  • No manches!!!!

    jajaaja no entendi nda..

    o

    eso q salio de mi oreja fue una chispa?

    o_O

  • lol!

    donde te enseñan eso? xD

  • jaja vi otro video casi igual pero estaba bien aburrido porque no tenia musica y no estaba moderno... entonces hice otra version :)

  • pretty interesting... where'd you get that from?

  • COMO QUE LE QUISE ENTENDER JoJOj , esta chiLO 5 *****

  • i like the music, i dont understand the drawings.

  • pretty awesome!!! :DDDDD

  • I like this video better than the other mayan math ones cuz it actually has music

  • One: Cool vid...and that's some pretty cool math there...

    Two: YOu have 2 youtube accounts? Dork!!

  • The music and the video are great!

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